The Mepe Development Association (MDA) has denied the allegation that some chiefs were hijacking, diverting flood relief items meant for victims of the Akosombo Dam spillage to their personal homes and misappropriating them.
Rudolph Kwadzo Gli, a regent of the Anipati Stool at Mepe, made the allegation on Friday (Nov 10, 2023] when on behalf of the people of Mepe, he received food stuff and various relief items worth GH¢20,000 presented by the Avazorli Union of which Mepe is a member.
The presentation was to flood victims in the town.
Rudolph Kwadzo Gli did not give further details on those perpetrating the said acts, Graphic Online’s Alberto Mario Noretti who was in Mepe and witnessed the handing over of the donated items reported.
Rudolph Kwadzo Gli, therefore, appealed to all donor groups to hand over the relief items to the palace at Mepe to ensure an equitable sharing of the items among the displaced persons.
Rejoinder
However, in a rejoinder to the story published by Graphic Online on Sunday [November 12, 2023, the Mepe Development Association (MDA) called on “all well-meaning persons to dismiss the story and the allegation thereof because it is not grounded in evidence.”
The rejoinder signed by Fabian Mawulenu Kojo, Chairman of the Mepe Development Association said the association “working with the Traditional Council, is solely in charge of the receipt, storage and distribution of relief items to displaced persons in the traditional area.”
It said the functioning Central Committee and sub-committees with representatives from each of the Five Clans/Divisions of Mepe Traditional Area, pensioners, women, Persons With Disability (PWD), churches, among other stakeholders, in charge of the distribution of all relief items.
It said the MDA, through the committee, has since distributed relief items to 5,200 households in Mepe, the seven displaced camps, including St. Kizito and other affected villages in the traditional area.
